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The Undying Magician - Book 5 - Chapter 17

Added 2025-08-19 21:59:32 +0000 UTC

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All across the Stadium
Year 2851 | Month 5 | Day 4

One person after another goes silent as they stare at the Undying Magician down in the arena. Because, while everyone already knew about the Undying Magician’s true immortality, no one has ever seen it.

There has never been any recordings of it sent to the news outlets with clear evidence of it. To the point that many of the people weren’t even absolutely certain of his immortality in the first place.

Most of the civilians and magicians assumed it was true because the Alliance stated it was and that they had proof of it.

Even if no one ever saw the proof.

The other nations and their leaderships that didn’t have any eyes on the abandoned continents agreed with the civilians and magicians. All because of the lengths the Alliance were going to ingratiate themselves to the Undying Magician.

And yet, now that everyone’s seen it clearly with their own eyes, fear begins to mix in with the awe they’ve felt ever since hearing about the Undying Magician.

Fear that doesn’t fade even as the Undying Magician leaves the arena along with the rest of the trial takers.

Meanwhile the spectating nations and their leaders all begin to fully dedicate themselves towards bettering their relationship with the Undying Magician. And the three Alliance Leaders all just take the time to review the footage of the trial they just saw.

None of them have seen his immortality at work in person. They’ve only seen it through screens.

And they can’t use their magical senses through a screen.

They aren’t the only ones doing this either as the First Tower Master floats high above the arena with his eyes closed. Just focusing on what he remembered seeing while watching the Undying Magician in the trial.

Every last detail of the mana inside of Nathan’s body as the time and space mana forcefully revert everything to a single point in time. Turning his body back in seconds every time some sort of change occurs to his body.

And taking note of how it doesn’t affect his mana arcs so long as the mana arcs are not destroyed.

Which furthers the First Tower Master’s research on mana arcs. About how they are separate from people’s bodies.

How they are more spiritual in form than physical.

“Curious…” Crimson mutters to himself while opening his eyes to look at the departing Undying Magician. “Very curious.”

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Nathan
Year 2851 | Month 5 | Day 6

This is annoying.

After passing the first trial, I find my terminal completely flooded with requests to meet me.

It doesn’t matter if they’re regular civilians sending fan mail, reporters and other companies requesting interviews, or nations requesting alliances or just regular meetings to open up diplomatic ties with the abandoned continents.

Everyone is contacting me. And I have no idea who most of these people are.

Some of them are even going to the Magic Towers and giving their requests to the Tower Masters directly in the hopes that the Tower Masters can bring those requests to me.

It’s ridiculous.

And the news is going wild ever since seeing my performance at the trial. No doubt because it was the first public showing of my immortality.

At the end of the day though, I ignore almost everything and focus on expanding my mana arcs.

While, of course, training my mana manipulation.

I only stop training two days after the first trial. When all trial takers are required to meet up again.

So I head to the meeting place while ignoring a lot of people trying to get my attention along the way. And when I arrive, I find the other trial takers looking at me as if I’m already pretty much guaranteed to pass the trials.

As if I’m someone to avoid. To avoid antagonizing at all costs.

Which makes sense.

After all, these people are far better people in general than those magicians on the abandoned continents. And also, the stronger I get as a magician, the harder it is for someone to capture me.

And killing me just isn’t possible.

So it’s getting more and more difficult for anyone to stop me from reaching my goals as time goes on.

While we wait for the other trial takers to arrive, I take the time to look over them. Making note of the stronger ones and the more unique and rarer affinities amongst them.

Like the sound affinity. Or the gravity affinity.

There’s also the curse affinity, the anti-matter affinity, and even the reflect affinity.

The reflect affinity is just as rare as time, death, and space.

An affinity that copies another affinity and keeps it copied until the user of the mana decides to replace it with a different affinity.

It’s a very powerful affinity.

As for what it does to the user’s body? No one really knows.

Except the guy who has the affinity. Probably.

Of course, there are also a lot more Class S magicians amongst the trial takers who have regular affinities too.

Common Special Class affinities and elemental affinities galore.

There even seems to be someone who I think is from the Temple of Fire here. So I’m guessing he’ll probably be an ally if push comes to shove.

Still. I doubt I’ll need an ally for the trial.

I continue studying the others before the last person arrives. At which point Crimson arrives himself with an entire fleet of ships behind him that just float high above the tower where we’re standing.

Then he declares, “Everyone, go to the ship with your assigned symbol on it. The very same one you were given after the first trial. That will be the ship taking you to the starting line for the second trial.”

I glance at the symbol in the form of a ring on my finger. Then I look up at the ships before finding the ship at the very center of them all. One of the larger ships at that.

Meanwhile everyone around me starts to fly into the air through various means. With some of them with the enhancement affinity even straight up jumping and landing on their respective ship from the tower.

So I do the same. I use fire magic to shoot myself into the air before landing on my assigned ship.

And the moment I step foot on it, the ship begins to move.

Beginning the trip to the second trial.